While holding that plaintiffs (represented by Nichols Kaster & Anderson) cannot pursue their tip-sharing claim against Starbuck as a class action, the United States District Court, D. Minn. (Judge Patrick Schiltz), recently held that Starbucks policy violates Minnesota law. (Nichols Kaster & Anderson have brought similar claims against Caribou coffee and a Minneapolis strip club.) […]
This case is set for hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 1. Here is all you need to know everything about the case. Milavetz Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. is counsel of record and is also a party in Milavetz, Gallop v. U.S., 08-1119, and U.S. v. Milavetz, Gallop, 08-1225, consolidated cases before the […]
Update: The Fair Isaac litigation was the subject of an earlier entry (below), a skirmish about deadlines. A deadline, again, is the subject of motion practice. This time it is a motion to exclude Experian’s amended exhibit list as untimely, set for hearing tomorrow afternoon, less than ten days before the scheduled start of trial […]
Latest news re: Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) Class Action: Judge Ann D. Montgomery heard argument this afternoon on plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in this putative class action on behalf of individuals who have sought government assistance to avoid foreclosure and eviction from their homes under the HAMP and have been denied that […]
An interesting little puzzle: if a public entity and a “gad-fly” advocacy group enter into a settlement agreement whereby the gad-fly will not address any further challenges to the public entity’s conduct that he originally challenged through litigation, will a later complaint by the public entity for the breach of that settlement agreement against the […]
1) Three-years of litigation, three-week trial, one day’s jury deliberation: Plaintiffs zeroed… In a long and certainly hard-fought class action battle against Allianz Life Ins. Co. of Golden Valley, plaintiffs, led by Karl Cambronne came up empty-handed. Allianz was repesented by a phalanx of lawyers from Jordan Burt, which focuses on insurance and financial services. […]
The Twin Cities, Minnesota, and civil litigation are again making the New York Times today. Last week, it was Minnesota’s star turn as the epicenter of an e. coli tragedy that caught the paper’s attention. It is often said that bad news comes in threes. The Yankees/Twins series rounds out the triad. Enough already. [10/15/09 […]
T-Mobile takes Brooklyn Park to federal court (Judge Kyle, in particular) in a battle over whether the city wrongfully denied T-Mobile’s application for permission to install a cell phone tower. (Aren’t petitions for writs of mandamus abolished in federal court?) (Is there a problem with going to federal court for the federal court to order […]
The Sunday New York Times last Sunday covered the tragic story of a 22 year-old Cold Spring, Minnesota woman whose life changed dramatically after having eaten an e. coli-tainted burger. The Times story is lengthy, traces the “geneology of a burger,” giving new meaning to “Who’s your patty?” and tracing the burger to Cargill, one […]
(How many negatives are in that sentence?) In disallowing Dennis “Denny” Hecker’s homestead exemption claim today, Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel has rejected Dennis E. Hecker’s “insider reverse veil piercing theory,” one of many perhaps convoluted legal theories that has evolved from the invention of the corporation. In a nutshell, Hecker claimed the homestead exemption under […]